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Hi,help needed on identifying this vase please which is cased in clear glass and has stylised flowers or leaves and aventurine.The internal glass is dark purple and has a polished base.It measures 23 cms tall by 20 cms across by 10 cms deep and weighs 2.8 kgs.The thickness of the glass at the neck is 1cm.Hopefully someone can help me on this.Thanks,Paul.

Hi John,thank you for the info and the links.My only thoughts and this is coming from someone who has only seen Chinese glass in furniture,homeware stores etc is the heavy weight for a relatively small vase and the polished finish on the base which i have not seen before.Cheers Paul and thanks again John.

Thick walled and heavy in weight are typical of what I tend to see here, many are quite large too. They are often bright and really cheerful and generally great value. Flat polished bases are not that unusual, more often there is a ground but unpolished pontil mark too.

Domestic producers must be tearing their hair out at the competition, where the Chinese products fall down is overall quality, especially in terms of attention to detail and somewhat generic design.